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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Something positive for a change: FreeBSD 1.0 shared libs are working
Date: 18 Nov 1993 18:04:06 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <CGnz3x.KHu@genesis.nred.ma.us>,
Steve Gerakines <steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us> wrote:
>>Jordan K. Hubbard says:
>>[shared libs]
>>Doesn't look like much, but 15K blocks is still 15K blocks, and I
>>should easily be able to get another 20MB or so off of this once my
>>enormous collection of X11 contrib compiled stuff and xview clients
>>are also compiled shared.
>
>I was curious.  When shared libraries are released for the general
>public, are the FreeBSD folks planning on keeping both the static and
>shared binary packages on-line?

To be honest, we haven't even thought about the issue.

We're more interested in making the shared libraries work with EVERYTHING
and getting all the little install/bugs/nigglets worked out of the current
code and implementation (where implementation is how we've got them in our
tree as well as the implementation as Paul Kranenburg has written them)

>For the bigger packages, I'm really
>starting to enjoy just picking up the binaries when it's all I really
>need.  Makes life much easier for me.  Perhaps the statically bound
>stuff will just eventually be phased out?

???  We'll see what the users think.  If folks still want static binaries
and we have the disk space for both static and shared apps, I don't see it
being a problem.

(It's a piece of cake to make either/or with the current setup)


Nate

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